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    "id": 971437,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatangi",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Kimani Wamatangi",
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    "content": "The reason is incompetence and lack of coordination. The passing of small documents to be signed to agree that the contractor can be asked, “Because you have already undertaken this project and you have local knowledge of what is supposed to be done?” That cannot be accomplished.” Up to date, almost five or six years onwards, that project is still pending and the average clearance time for a truck that has arrived to Malaba border post would be three or four days, hanging and waiting for the backlog to be cleared. The reason is there is a loop of less than 150 metres that cannot be completed. Madam Temporary Speaker, we had the luck as we left that border point of meeting the Principal Secretary (PS) of the Ministry of Transport and in the same department. We engaged him in Kisumu and we were asking him, “How can we, as a country, stand and face our people, the investors or our neighbours and tell them that we have been unable to reconcile this kind of situation?” In terms of social impact, people in the whole of that area are complaining. When these trucks line up the whole of these 20 kilometres, there are human beings inside; drivers and turn boys, they convert the local area, the roadside and the few homesteads around there into toilets. That is where they go to relieve themselves. They maraud around and it becomes a security concern. Basically, there are zero facilities and the place is unlit. This is the kind of country we have to look at. Sometimes you go to, for example, Uganda having been invited to a meeting maybe in Parliament. Knowing that you come from Kenya and you are a Member of the Committee on Roads and Transportation, you could be asked to explain that kind of thing. How would you explain to a Ugandan businessman who asks you that? How would one explain that this country has failed to some extent to somebody who wants to invest their money here? How can this country claim that we have a problem of unemployment of our young people?"
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